Chocolate Peanut Butter Cup Cookies

I always like to try new recipes, which is one of the reasons I like Pinterest so much. It’s an endless source of new recipes to test out.

Today’s cookies were inspired by a recipe I pinned was for chocolate raspberry cookies from Paula Dean. I wanted to try them, but I didn’t have the raspberry creme filled chocolate baking pieces that the recipe called for.

Preheat the oven to 350 and lightly grease your cookie sheets. In a mixing bowl cream together softened butter and sugars at medium speed until they are light and fluffy. Add eggs and vanilla, mixing well.

Next, add the dry ingredients and beat until well blended.

Cut the mini peanut butter cups and add them to the cookie batter by stirring gently. You don’t want the pieces to break up too much, so skip the mixer.

Drop the cookie dough by teaspoonful onto a greased cookie sheet.

The cookies need to bake for 12-14 minutes. Then, remove from the cookie sheets to cool.

Once the cookies are cool, melt the white chocolate chips. Drizzle the white chocolate on top of the cookies.